Process of making ozonized terpinol.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT VERLEY, OF OOURBEVOIE, FRANCE, ASSIGBIOR TO THE SOOIETE ANGLO FRANCAISE DES PARFUMS PERFEOTIONNES, LIMITED, OF SAME PLACE AND LONDON, ENGLAND.

PROCESS OF MAKING OZONIZED TERPINOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,347, dated May 22, 1900.

Application filed July 31,1899. Serial No. 725,678. (N specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT VERLEY, electrician, acitizen of the Republic of France,

and a resident of 7 Quai dc Seine, Courbevoie, near Paris, France,have invented a certain new and useful Manufacture and Production of Certain Highly-Oxidized Organic Bodies, (for which 1 have applied for a patent in Great Britain, No. 27,523, dated December 30, 1898,) which invention is fully set forth in the following specification.

My invention has for its object the manufacture and production of certain highly-oxidized organic bodies by the action of ozone on organic bodies containing double bonds, such as the alcohols, acetones, terpenic aldehydes, and the like. The active oxygen of the ozone becomes fixed. The resulting bodies are soluble in water. They are probably peroxids answering to the formula I I o o and after a certain time the whole is changed into a clear liquid. A little carbonic acid is given off in the process.

The ozonized terpinol, or what I term ore-terpinol, can be isolated in a pure state by extracting it from its solution by ether. The ether is carefully dried over chlorid of calcium and then evaporated off in cacuo in the cold. The sub= stance (the ozo-terpinol) that remains is a viscous or thick oily substance which is easily decomposable at ordinary temperatures. Its analysis corresponds with the formula O H O with more or less Water in addition, terpinol having the formula 0 11 0. A somewhat-similar body can be obtained in the same way from methyl heptenone and from citral. A striking characteristic of these bodies is that they give off their active oxygen again in the presence of even a trace of acetate of lead.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I

ing Witnesses.

ALBERT VERLEY. Witnesses:

EDWARD P. MAOLEAN, EDWIN MITCHELL. 

